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Background and study aims: Adolescence is a time of change and development. Learning skills that build resilience has the potential to help adolescents navigate these challenges during their time at school and build a platform to serve them throughout their lives. Many secondary schools teach emotional health and wellbeing (ability to deal with life's challenges), believing that it can affect the way children learn, behave, and develop into adulthood. The project will compare existing, good quality social emotional learning that is already being taught in schools (known as ‘teaching as usual’) to a programme of study that is based on mindfulness techniques. The mindfulness programme, called ‘.b’, has been developed by the Mindfulness in Schools Project and is a series of 10 lessons. The lessons are designed to appeal to young people and each one teaches a particular mindfulness skill. Mindfulness is a way of being present to experiences as they happen, rather than worrying about what has happened or might happen in the future. Participating teachers in schools allocated to the mindfulness group will be trained to deliver the programme to pupils. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of the mindfulness programme on the wellbeing of the pupils 2 years after the programme is delivered, but in addition it will look at the impact on teacher wellbeing and stress. Who can participate? Mainstream secondary schools in the UK, year 7 and 8 pupils who attend and their teachers. What does the study involve? The project will carry out a comparison of social and emotional learning, which is already being taught in schools, with a class-based mindfulness intervention (program). All of the schools participating in the project will carry on with their usual curriculum. However, in half of the participating schools a number of teachers will be trained in mindfulness intervention. Teachers in the mindfulness arm of the project complete a personal eight-week face-to-face mindfulness course. Each weekly session lasts for around two hours and takes place on the school premises after school hours. This is then followed by four-day mindfulness syllabus training. Teachers are then asked to teach the programme to classes of Year 8 and 9 pupils. Headteachers, teachers and pupils are asked to complete questions about their health and wellbeing at the start of the study and at up to a maximum of four further time points over a period of up to 3 years. What are the possible benefits and risks of participating? If allocated to the mindfulness intervention group, participating teachers and schools benefit from receiving personal mindfulness training and CPD training. There are no known risks associated with this project. Where is the study run from? The study is run from the University of Oxford and takes place in 76 secondary schools in England (UK) When is study starting and how long is it expected to run for? June 2016 to December 2021 Who is funding the study? Wellcome Trust, ref: 104908/Z/14/Z (UK) Who is the main contact? 1. Miss Elizabeth Nuthall (public) 2. Dr Catherine Crane (scientific)

Critère d'inclusion

• Mental wellbeing

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• isrctn
• ictrp